Found (sort of): Fresh & Easy
Today I received Sunnysider, a newsletter from the Sunnyside Property Owners Association. It’s filled with all sorts of information I don’t care to read–I’m a bit jaded from a past experience with the organization (and we’re intentionally not members)–but one small blurb may explain why a Sunnyside location of Fresh & Easy wasn’t listed in The Business Journal a few weeks back.
In a section titled “What’s Up in Sunnyside?” I find confirmation that the store has plans for the area:
A rezone and plan amendment application has been requested…for sixteen acres of property located on the northeast and southeast corners of South Clovis and East California Avenues…The requested change to mixed-use would be composed of 106 senior apartments, 48,919 square feet of retail space with two drive-thrus, 12.602 square feet of office space, and a 4,875 square foot daycare center. The anchor tenant would be Fresh and Easy.
And then I learn why those plans have not come to fruition:
SPOA and neighbors have expressed concerns regarding the additional traffic and noise that would be generated from the change to office / commercial uses and higher density apartments. The application has been put on hold.
I’m not excited about the prospect of two more drive-thrus, as that’s all that the area has now, but higher density housing mixed in with light commercial properties just off of a major thoroughfare seems pretty reasonable. Any development will create additional traffic, but the area can handle it.
Argh. More NIMBYism from the SPOA…
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I guess Fresh & Easy is more like Loud & Busy.
I swear Fresnans are so dense when it comes to density.
“Dense” is good description. SPOA members understand the concept, but they want nothing to do with it (which admittedly, I can empathize with…to an extent).
I think we need a healthy mix, though. And by healthy, I mean something to eat other than fast food and Javier’s.
I’m sorry to hear this plan is on hold. I was looking forward to a grocery I could walk to. The best planned communities are laid out that way. And since my parents are looking for affordable housing, this would be very convenient.